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The Inner ApocalypseLuminescence with recent grad Sophie MaliphantBut can you sit in your shit?
In this episode, Ang + Tamara talk to Sophie Maliphant of Wild Creativity, a recent Luminescence Grad, to talk about our six month long Cosmic Guidance journey.
You will learn about the style that Ang + Tamara teach with, the value of the intimate group learning that is offered through the Luminescence and broader Wild Sky Sisters community, as well as the benefits of using astrology in many different worlds - including the world of arts.
Learn about Luminescence and apply here: https://www.wildskysisters.ca/luminescence. We...2024-03-2825 min
Wild Creativity PodcastHappy Winter Solstice and Happy Birthday to The Firefly CreatrixHappy Winter Solstice everyone, welcome to the darkest moments of the year and an invitation into deep hibernation.This bonus episode is a reflection over the past year, the incredible conversations, insights I've received and the wild creative growth the has occurred.I talk about...The Wild Creativity Retreat that I'm holding next October in Ithaki, Greece.My Etsy Shop and how my art practice and belief in myself as an ARTIST has evolved this year.My Instagram feed as a place to see me share my...2023-12-2227 min
Wild Creativity PodcastTeam MedCan on telling real life stories through creativityIn this episode I speak with Dr Helen Beckett Wilson and Dr Lindsey Metcalf McGrath from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) who have been studying the experiences of people who have been prescribed medical cannabis in the UK. Their project is called MedCan.Medical Cannabis has been legal to prescribe since 2018, but it’s estimated that under 5 people have received it though the NHS.The study we have gathered to talk about is called “It’s a big added stress on top of being so ill”, a direct quote from a participant.I have...2023-10-281h 11
Wild Creativity PodcastNya Patrinos on embracing the darkness within ourselves through creativityTW: there is mention of sexual assault in this episode, please take care of yourself and avoid this one if that is a not a topic you can hear about.It was through Nya’s determination and following her creative path that inadvertently introduced me to the Moon Phase Goddesses in 2020 (her relationship with them has been much longer - 7 years of research happened before she launched her deck in 2018) I’m so pleased to bring you this episode where we explore her experiences on this challenging and fulfilling adventure, and the creative life she has buil...2023-10-191h 42
Wild Creativity PodcastBONUS updates and a goat licking a spoonA short check-in with Sophie amid the sounds of waves lapping at the beach.Includes reflections on releasing of control and plans to find the magic right in front of us, the power of finding our own ways to prevent stagnancy (hopefully without using it as an avoidance tool) and a story about the goats who come and interrupt the conversation - so there was a special guest after all! AND a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT about the planning of a Wild Creativity retreat next year on the island of Ithaca, Greece.Stay tuned for...2023-10-0818 min
Wild Creativity PodcastBONUS: Heather Loweena elaborates on ways to release our creative good girlTake this as an extra little gift!!An extended excerpt from the conversation between Heather and Sophie previously unheard.Our conversation was so long and juicy when we originally recorded that I cut it down a little bit so it didn't exceed one and a half hours.This is Heather's extended answer to my question around how we can release our creative good girl and people pleasing tendencies. Slowly Slowly. There's so much goodness in there it deserves its own little space!There may not be a podcast...2023-09-2610 min
Wild Creativity PodcastHeather Loweena on seeking pleasure as a form of activismJoin Sophie this Virgo New Moon as she talks to Heather Loweena, founder of Vulva Luv Club (among many other exciting ventures) about the pursuit of holistic pleasure as a form of activism and cultivating nourishing modern-day congregations.Heather Loweena (they/she) has two big passions: connection and pleasure seeking.She has been exploring the tools and resources available to us that can help to support and nurture our overall wellbeing. Her recovery journey began following a few bouts of burnout. The symptoms led me to discover the magic found in of our...2023-09-141h 29
Wild Creativity PodcastDr Sara Baumann on collaboration, health and creativityThis Full Moon we dive straight into our conversation with Dr Sara Baumann, who I have been working alongside in different capacities since 2020 - we talk about more in the conversation.This is the bio that I refer to at the beginning of the episode that had me like YES, this is why we are so aligned with our work, even though we come at it from different angles…“Sara Baumann is a global health, mixed methods researcher with primary research interests in 1) participatory, arts-based, and visual research methods, 2) women’s and adolescent reprod...2023-08-3158 min
Wild Creativity PodcastTurning the wild creativity questions on myselfHappy New Moon! In this episode it's just me, Sophie, again as I take a moment to reflect on the power of the conversations we have had so far - huge gratitude to Tamara, Vero and Laura, they really have been so insightful and inspiring!!I turn the questions that I've been sending to our guests to date on myself, as I realised that I haven't vocalised my answers and current experiences around these topics. They are ever changing and developing and this feels like the perfect moment to share where I'm at, how I currently...2023-08-161h 07
Wild Creativity PodcastLaura Edralin on creativity as a tool to soothe our mental healthThis Full Moon join Laura Edralin and I as we delve into the converging worlds of creativity, connection and mental health.Laura is a calligraphy artist, happiness facilitator and qualified wellbeing coach, based in West London with her husband and two young children.She started her business, Laura Letters Life, after the practice of calligraphy was an integral part of her recovery and reconnection after experiencing high levels of anxiety.In our conversation we discuss the fear and perceived obstacles of leaving the safety of a predictable career to pursue a...2023-08-011h 25
Wild Creativity PodcastVero Coya on organic, evolving creativityThis New Moon I am honoured to be releasing this inspiring conversation that I had with Vero Coya. Vero is an artist, singer, freelance illustrator, hand-poked tattooist and occasional muralist. As we talk, she identifies herself as an all round softie and this is a theme that threads through our conversation as something we both relate to and are learning to work with - maybe even recognising it as a superpower! We explore the diversity and the nuance involved in being a creative in business who is simultaneously overjoyed to be sharing her work in the w...2023-07-171h 23
Wild Creativity PodcastTamara from Wild Sky Sisters on creating freedom and dancing with astrologyOn this first episode of season two of The Firefly Creatrix podcast I am speaking with Tamara, one of the Wild Sky Sisters about her experiences of reclaiming wild creativity… and what even is wild creativity? What can it look like? There are no definitions here, but the conversation opens up and embrace the notion that creativity exists in so many places, not just where we were ‘trained’ to look for it.This is a conversation full of gems, of navigating this one wild and precious life together, of sisterhood and real, true collaboration where everyone gets to shi...2023-07-031h 08Wild Creativity PodcastSolstice IlluminationDropping a little love note to you all on the Summer Solstice (for the northern hemisphere)I hope this message finds you well and energised and that the brightness of this time of year is revealing things that feel good and nourishing to you!I am in the process of planning and recording SERIES TWO and I couldn't be more excited about it!In the first series I journeyed through themes connected to personal experiences on my creative path, which revealed wisdom that has been right under my nose.In...2023-06-2102 minWild Creativity PodcastCreativity and Letting GoA conversational journey into the power and importance of unlearning our conditioning so we can be the creatives we came here to be.Whoosh! This is a big one, and it's been waiting to come through for a while but NOW is PERFECT!This is a reflection of what the process of creating this podcast has taught me to date, how I've been able to LET GO of imposter syndromes and embrace my humanness when listening to what I record AND how the content of what has organically been spoken time and time again...2023-05-3049 minWild Creativity PodcastCreativity, the feminine and politicsI dive into this conversation about creativity as a feminine quality, and its relation to sustainable change, social commentary and powerful movements, which therefore means it MUST be political.If politics is "the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status" then creativity definitely has something, or actually a lot, to do with that! It may not always be brash and bold but it is a tool that people have employed since the beginning of time to...2023-05-0146 minWild Creativity PodcastCreativity and StoryStories. A staple of my life but not something I'd associated with my creative process until recent times.I unpack my love of fictional stories where I get to know the deep feelings of characters and see myself reflected in the nuances of the human experience. And how accepting and embracing that love has guided me to see the importance of our own stories... the bigness and the full spectrum of them! This has invited me to embrace the messy, non-linear way of the creative process, and to see how I have denied some parts of it...2023-04-1732 minWild Creativity PodcastCreativity and the DivineA short backstory about how the concept of the divine / spirit / Goddess entered and changed my life, made me question my creative path, and definitely helped me shape how it has developed and evolved. Before that, unknowingly, creativity had been my devotional and healing tool - somewhere that I intuitively went to process the meaning of things! Now it is all deeply connected and entwined; one informs the other, or maybe they are one and the same thing after all! This conversation is a little way marker in my ever-growing, beautiful and confronting journey of learning to live in...2023-04-0522 minWild Creativity PodcastCreativity and GriefExploring the relationship between grief and creativity.Acknowledging the nuanced places where grief shows up.And how the different forms and experiences of grief can affect, derail, morph and even catalyse the creative process.This is a big topic and not one that can be 'ticked off' in an episode.This is a start at unpicking the ways that grief has popped into my life after something that I had loved or longed for was lost, and how that has guided me slowly and sustainably into a more true version...2023-03-1340 minWild Creativity PodcastCreativity and the Menstrual CycleA topic I'm really passionate about, the menstrual cycle! How we relate to it, collaborate with it, learn about it and respect it.As previously mentioned, one of my passions is Kumari's Adventure with her Moon Cycle, a community creating and championing holistic menstrual education in Nepal.Here I share how working with the ebbs and flows of my menstrual cycle has informed and strengthened my creative approaches. It is one of my internal guides and honouring the energy of each phase has made the creative process so much more exciting and empowering... now...2023-02-2742 minWild Creativity PodcastSocial Change and CreativityExploring Creativity as a catalyst and a synonym for social change. And for change itself.This is a space where I explore the intricacies and nuances of creativity and my journey of unravelling the conditioning that I have accumulated around it.My own social change work that I mention isThe Country That ShookKumari's Adventure with her Moon CycleAnd the Giving Back page on my website explains it a bit more too. That's here.Thank you for joining me here, I'd love...2023-02-1337 minWild Creativity PodcastPerfectionism and CreativityThis is a space where I intend to explore the intricacies and nuances of creativity and my journey of unravelling the conditioning that I have accumulated around it.For this first episode of series one, I had intentions to start with other topics, but it soon became clear that I had to start with PERFECTIONISM! So that it is acknowledged for the huge part that it has played and continues to play in my creative journey, as I muse about where it came from and how I'm now choosing to work with it as a tool...2023-01-3035 minWild Creativity PodcastGetting the illumination party startedWelcome to the first podcast episode from The Firefly Creatrix, an opportunity to introduce the varied and meandering adventure that I've been on through the medium of creativity.This is a space where I intend to explore the intricacies and nuances of creativity and my journey of unravelling the conditioning that I have accumulated around it.Thank you for joining me here, I'd love to hear from you at sophie@thefireflycreatrix.com with any thoughts, feedback or requests for content discussion!In the episode, I talk about the Moon Phase Goddesses.2023-01-1627 minThe Inner ApocalypseEp 23 The Firefly Creatrix Illuminates a New Way of Cosmic 'Branding'In today’s episode of our podcast, we talk to one of our Wild Sky Sisters, Sophie Maliphant.
Tamara and Sophie met in 2017 during a Wild Power course with the Red School. We were ecstatic to find each other as we were both working with Nepali communities and developed a friendship that has blossomed into many different areas: in friendship, non-profit work, astrology and design.
We are launching a collaboration with with Sophie to illuminate small businesses by combining our talents: the Wild Sky Sisters partner with you to do a Business Natal Chart Reading and the Firefly Creatrix partners wi...2022-10-1339 min
Nepal Now: On the MoveActivists put menstrual health on the agenda in NepalWelcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we discuss new ideas and initiatives to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan. A lot has happened around menstrual health issues in Nepal in recent years. And it seems that all that work is bearing fruit. In its last budget the government pledged to drastically cut the tax and import duty on menstrual hygiene products, while a toolkit created by a group of organizations will soon be distributed in government schools. Today’s guests have taken very different routes to contribute to better menstrual health. Work...2022-07-1224 min
Squiggly LivesSophie Maliphant on travel, creativity, social justice and female empowermentListen on Spotify | Listen on Apple
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In this episode we chat with Sophie Maliphant. Sophie is a freelance graphic designer focused on supporting small businesses and social causes. She is the founder of The Country that Shook, a non-profit initiative that seeks to support and empower Nepali woman. The initiative grew out of a children’s book of the same name that Sophie wrote and illustrated herself after an earthquake in Nepal in 2015, which raised enough money for a local school to be rebuilt after the disaster. Sophie is also the founder of...2022-05-021h 11Squiggly LivesSophie Maliphant on travel, creativity, social justice and female empowermentListen on Spotify | Listen on AppleAbout this episodeIn this episode we chat with Sophie Maliphant. Sophie is a freelance graphic designer focused on supporting small businesses and social causes. She is the founder of The Country that Shook, a non-profit initiative that seeks to support and empower Nepali woman. The initiative grew out of a children’s book of the same name that Sophie wrote and illustrated herself after an earthquake in Nepal in 2015, which raised enough money for a local school to be rebuilt after the disaster. Sophie is also the founder of...2022-05-021h 11
Period Kaa Kura- Nepali PodcastEpisode 23- Kumari's Adventure with her Moon CycleIn this episode, we take you to the menstrual journey of Kumari and her adventures. Kumari' Adventure with her Moon Cycle is a new comic book that includes stories curated by a diverse group of people with a vision to encourage and inspire conversation about menstruation in Nepal.
Here we discuss the adventurous book to be published soon in both English and Nepali language with the team members. But, first, let's find out how is the journey of Kumari with her moon cycle book is created.
In conversation with Sophie Maliphant, Ashma Dahal and Rashmi Adhikari...2021-06-2222 min